About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

May 30......

May 30 is the 150th (151st in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On The Human Condition "We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty." — G. K. Chesterton

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Anti-Semitism "The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers—the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel." — David Chilton, author of The Days of Vengeance {I am ever amazed at how the hate mongers can ignore the facts of history. How can a religion 4000 years older than Christianity have Christianity as its forerunner? He ignores the fact he worships a man that was a devout practicing Jew for his entire lifetime.}

Thought for the day: "To save one life is better than to build a seven story pagoda."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 339 - Death of Eusebius, 74, Father of early church history. He attended the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325, and his "Historia Ecclesiastica" contains an abundance of detail on the first three centuries of the Early Church found nowhere else in ancient literature.

● 1035 - Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders

● 1087 - German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad

● 1100 - Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht

● 1381 - English boer uprising begins in Essex

● 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.

● 1431 - French heroine Joan of Arc, 19, a prisoner of the English, was burned at the stake for heresy. {Her true heresy was having defeated the English.} (She was later canonized in 1920 by Benedict XV.)

● 1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise and opens the Northern Territory to slavery. Opposition to it led to formation of the Republican Party. It also established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

● 1868 - Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).

● 1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.

● 1889 - The brassiere is invented {German word holdzemfromflappin}

● 1896 - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)

● 1901 - Russian writer Maxim Gorky, arrested on charges of printing revolutionary literature, is released from prison after Count Leo Tolstoy intercedes on his behalf. Gorky will serve a similar role by interceding on the behalf of many writers victimized by Stalin's regime.

● 1934 - The two-day Barmen Synod ended in Germany. The resulting Barmen Declaration affirmed that the German Confessing Church recognized Jesus Christ to be the only authoritative voice of God, in clear contrast to all other (i.e., Nazi) powers representing divine revelation.

● 1967 - Egypt and Jordan unite against Israel; The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.

● 1968 - President De Gaulle disbands French parliament

● 1968 - University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up

● 1968 - West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law

● 1968 - Death of Martin Noth, 66, German Old Testament scholar. Noth was the first authority to note that 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings contain virtually no mention of the classic prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Hosea.

● 1969 - Gibraltar adopts constitution

● 1969 - Twenty thousand rally in a peaceful protest in Berkeley, Cal., to oppose state suppression of People's Park.

● 1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao

● 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 launched to Map 70% of the surface and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface of Mars.

● 2001 - French ex-minister jailed over sleaze; Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country's biggest political scandal in recent history.

● 2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. {It also signaled the end of the most poorly processed crime scenes in all of History.}

● 2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde.

● 2005 - American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown. {However, the story was a great distraction for several months from things of true import.}

● 2006 - A jury in Rockville, Md., convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.

● 2006 - The FBI said it had found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm.

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.